244 MAMMALIA. 



OSTEOLOGY. 



Skull of male. Siberia. From the Museum of the Royal 

 Academy of St. Petersburgh. 



Skull of female. Siberia. From the Museum of the Royal 

 Academy of St. Petersburgh. 



The Musk Deer are found nearly to the arctic circle ; they are 

 abundant near Verkhoiansk in North Siberia (Lat. 67 7 f , E. 

 Long. 134), and called Kabarga. A pound of musk is com- 

 monly sold from 10 to 15 roubles. Wrangle's Siberia and Po- 

 lar Sea, by Sabine, 374, 1844. 



2. MOSCHUS MOSCH1FKRUS. The MUSK. 



Dark brown, chest ami belly rather paler. Throat and chest 

 with indistinct, pale cross bands. 



Moschus moschiferus, Linn. S. IV. i. 91; Gray, List Mamm. B. 



M. 172; List Osteol. Sp. B. M. 62, 63; List Hodgson Col- 

 lection, 30. 



Animal moschiferum, Raii Quad. 124; Caleot. Mus. 661. t. 666. 

 Capreolus Moschus, Gesner, Quad. 695 ; Jonston, Quad. 55. t. 39. 

 Capra moschus, Aldrov. Bisulc. 743. 

 Muskus, &c., Ysbr. Reis. 45. fig. 

 Musk, Buffon, Hist. Nat. xii. 361, Supp. vi. 221. t. 29. 

 Moschus, Schr&k. Monag. t. 44. 

 Canrea moschifera, Seger. Misc. Acad. Nat. Cur. i. 169. Obs. 



128. t. 11. 



Tragulns moschiferus, Klein. 



Tibet Musk, Penn. Syn. 56. t. 10. f. 1; Quad. i. 112. 1. 12. f. 1. 

 Moschus saturatus, Hodgson, J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, viii. 203, x. 



795. t. , xi. 285. 



Moschus Kacharensis, Hodgson, Cat. MSS. v. t. 3. 

 Moschus Moschus var., Ogilby in Royle, Himal. i. LXXI. 

 Musk?, Falconer, Journ. Asiat. Soc. iv. 710. 

 Hob. Thibet; Nepal. 



Male (in bad state). India. Presented by Gen. Hardwicke. 



A flat hunter's skin. India. Presented by Gen. Hardwicke. 



Male (in bad state). India. 



Female. Nepal. Presented by the Hon. East India Company. 



Nepal. Presented by B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 



Two specimens from Nepal. Presented by B. H. Hodgson, 

 Esq. 



A male, brownish and dark. Nepal. Presented by B. H. 

 Hodgson, Esq. 



A male, with a dark streak on the nape, and a large dark spot 

 between the shoulders. Nepal. Presented by B. H. Hodgson, 

 Esq. 



